Suzanne Collins Quotes

I don't cry about anything.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I don't cry easily.

How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them back, if someone argues with you, argue back, never give in an inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive.

We don't have time to be sad

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

No, nothing really upsets me.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

I've learned to brush off many things.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.